# Isaiah 29

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/29

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. Woe to Ariel, Ariel, the city where David camped! Add year to year; let the festivals run their cycle.
2. Then I will bring distress on Ariel, and there will be mourning and lamenting, and she will be to me like an altar hearth.
3. I will camp against you all around; I will besiege you with towers and raise siegeworks against you.
4. Brought low, you will speak from the ground; your words will come up faintly from the dust. Your voice will come from the ground like that of a ghost, and your words will whisper from the dust.
5. But the horde of your foes will be like fine dust, the horde of the ruthless like drifting chaff. In an instant, suddenly,
6. you will be visited by Yahweh of Armies with thunder and earthquake and a great noise, with whirlwind and storm and the flame of a devouring fire.
7. The horde of all the nations that fight against Ariel, all who fight against her and her stronghold and bring distress on her, will be like a dream, a vision in the night.
8. It will be as when a hungry man dreams that he is eating, but he wakes up and his hunger is not satisfied; or as when a thirsty man dreams that he is drinking, but he wakes up faint, with his thirst still craving. So it will be with the horde of all the nations that fight against Mount Zion.
9. Stun yourselves and be stunned; blind yourselves and be blind! They are drunk, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with beer.
10. For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep; he has closed your eyes, the prophets, and covered your heads, the seers.
11. This whole vision has become for you like the words of a sealed scroll. When they give it to someone who can read and say, “Please read this,” he answers, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
12. When they give the scroll to someone who cannot read and say, “Please read this,” he answers, “I cannot read.”
13. The Lord said: Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of human beings learned by rote,
14. therefore look, I will once again do astonishing things with this people, wonder upon wonder; the wisdom of their wise will perish, and the understanding of their discerning will vanish.
15. Woe to those who go to great depths to hide their plans from Yahweh, whose deeds are done in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us? Who knows us?”
16. How you turn things upside down! Is the potter to be regarded as the clay, so that the thing made can say to its maker, “He did not make me,” or the thing formed say to the one who formed it, “He has no understanding”?
17. In just a very little while, will not Lebanon be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be regarded as a forest?
18. On that day the deaf will hear the words of a scroll, and out of gloom and darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
19. The humble will again rejoice in Yahweh, and the poorest of people will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.
20. For the ruthless will be gone, the scoffer will come to an end, and all who are eager to do evil will be cut off,
21. those who with a word make a person out to be guilty, who set a trap for the one who reproves at the gate, and with empty claims turn aside the righteous.
22. Therefore this is what Yahweh, who redeemed Abraham, says concerning the house of Jacob: Jacob will no longer be ashamed; his face will no longer grow pale.
23. For when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in his midst, they will treat my name as holy; they will treat the Holy One of Jacob as holy and will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
24. Those who go astray in spirit will gain understanding, and those who grumble will accept instruction.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 28](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/28.md)
[Isaiah 30](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/30.md)

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